Stealing someone’s identity to defraud someone is a serious criminal offence.
Borrowing someone’s identity to take the piss out of them, as the Brits would say, is a time-tested satirical technique.
The skewerer gets props for cleverness. But the one who is skewered often also gains visibility, possibly a wider audience, and kudos for having a sense […]
How valuable are symbolic events like Earth Hour? Are we better off ignoring the media hype and getting on with changing our energy consumption?
The discussions I followed this weekend indicated that symbolic events have a place, but the optics of spending a piddly hour each year on the subject is unfortunate.
I poked some fun […]
GROVER’S MILL, NJ — The hour of darkness that engulfed Europe tonight left most essential services intact, despite a scare at a nuclear plant that turned off its alarm system to preserve power.
Earth Hour is heading for North America, causing the Department of Homeland Security to upgrade its terror alert to Dark.
“Many people are […]
GROVERS MILL, NJ — There are reports from Tonga of drivers turning off their lights during Earth Hour.
Eyewitnesses were unable to give accurate estimates of how many vehicles may have been involved in a massive pile-up at the Pacific island country’s traffic light, which was also turned off.
“It’s too dark! I can’t tell you […]
GROVER’S MILL, NJ — Today the Mercury Players Mashup Group will be chronicling Earth Hour, a symbolic gesture of environmental awareness to be carried out in more than 200 cities around the world.
The official organizers of Earth Hour is the World Wildlife Fund, a group that represents the interests of animals, their habitats, and […]
If there’s one thing guaranteed to make me froth at the mouth, it’s instructions and signage that seem designed to confuse the reader.
Yesterday I was at the airport picking up my spouse. I had my coins ready for the parking meter.
Surprise! There are no parking meters. Every five or six parking spaces have a […]
Jon Stewart and his Daily Show writers nailed the highlight of the media’s intense feeding frenzy on the implosion of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s political career.
The Daily Show’s newsreel March 11 showed clips of several veteran journalists expressing naive confusion over how someone might run up a tab and pay one’s bill with a […]
The media is obsessed with bad news. Given the chance, they will take the worst possible angle on a story and play it up.
Just ignore the average sports story, the average business story, the average lifestyles story and the average local story.
And don’t pay attention to the coverage of official events, announcements, and anniversaries. […]
You have to admire the stiff upper lippedness of McDonald’s UK, as they respond to “questions” from “customers.”
At what point should they just throw up their arms and admit their stiff, corporate responses are being tested with the most bizarre, offputting questions imaginable?
No time soon, apparently.
This example of online tomfoolery reminds me of probably […]
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